DALLAS -- Mike Modano said he felt some nerves Thursday morning as he walked into the visitor's dressing room at American Airlines for the first time, and then stepped onto the ice for the morning skate wearing a Detroit Red Wings practice jersey.

"Obviously, the nerves are a little high, otherwise felt real good, comfortable,'' Modano said. "Trying to approach it like any other game but obviously that's difficult to do. It'll probably be harder as the day moves along and it gets closer to game time. Hopefully, once it gets started you relax and play the game.''

Despite being the face of the franchise for 20 years, he said he expects to hear some boos because of the jersey he's wearing, but added, "Every time they come down here and played them in the past half the building was red.''

Stars captain Brenden Morrow called it "a huge deal'' and a big homecoming for Modano. He also commented on how Modano sold the game in Texas.

"You can just see by the looks of the guy, he doesn't look like a hockey player, he looks like a model, and he's 40 and looks like he's in his 20s,'' Morrow said. "So a good-looking guy coming down to Texas selling hockey, I think it was a good one for one of the demographics here.''